Colleen Pelly
speaker
163 appearances
1 recordings
1 series
first heard Apr 2025
last heard Apr 2025
Colleen Pelly’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
Trend
recordings per month · last 12 monthsNo recordings in the last 12 months.Older appearances are listed below; set an alert to hear about the next one.
Appearances
Right, and it's not like aligning.
Yep. No, I totally hear you. I think there's a, I mean, it's like a tricky game. A lot of companies are playing right now too, because they want to feel like they're inclusive and making sure everyone's feeling safe and everyone's feeling comfortable and
But also there is a bottom line like it's not like where my brain keeps going to like even myself like one of my biggest learnings in my company was like I've kept keep people on for far too long. Yes. Because I'm super empathetic and you know or I'll do work for them or I'll end up picking up the slack and then.
at some point I have to like put my big curl pants on and remember I'm trying to run a company. And I think like that's something as well. Like, so there's this hard thing where you are one of my learnings or one of my areas of opportunities. I want people to like me and I need to like, why? Yeah. I, maybe I'm not for everyone and that's okay. Right. Right. Right.
What I should be shifting more on is like, I want people to like my work and like my ethic and like my communication. And if they like me or not, it doesn't matter. And that's take, I'm still a work in progress on that point.
Yeah, I don't know. I'm trying to think of the right... This safe way of like... Yeah, safe is a good way to put it.
Yes and no. Like I think... The Gen Z generation, I guess, like, has... They'll just say no. And so, like, yes. Like, the real black would be like, okay, that doesn't work for you. Then it's not the right opportunity for you. And I'd rather not place you because you're going to quit anyway. And, like, we're going to waste time and resources. So I think...
If we're going to find a silver lining, because that's my mentality, would be like, it's just opening the door for the right people. So I think like my job as a recruiter, my job if we're going to use sales is I just need to paint the picture completely transparently. Like this is what it looks like and it works for you. It doesn't. Right.
And I think as a sales tactic in general, you want the person to always feel like it's their decision. right? Like even if I'm guiding the process and I'm guiding the decision process, I want you to always feel like you're the one making the choice. And so it's like, here's exactly what it looks like. If this doesn't work for you, that's okay.
And I'm not going to be offended if this isn't the right opportunity for you. Here's why I think it is. And you can let me know if you want to have a conversation about it. And I will say there are, like when I think about the senior C-suite level, not even C-suite, but like just senior director, VP level to like this younger generation, there is a difference in work ethic in terms of like
what they're willing to do like commuting to COVID really, like when I first started my hiring, and you know, the world was not on fire yet was 45 minute queue is normal. And now people are like, I'm not leaving my house. So that's definitely been different.
So like, if we have a role that's in office, and it's like more than 30 minutes, we can't like search, I would say 30 minutes, like the max people are willing to drive.
And that's shifted a lot because it used to be like, you know, in Toronto, people could live outside of the city and they would willingly commute in every day.
Yeah. It's not a thing anymore.
Oh, fun.
And it was just normal and no one cared.
No, I have never experienced that before. I definitely have experienced like mid-interview process, sort of like, you know, you meet me and then you'll meet the hiring manager and someone being like, you know, I don't feel like this is the right environment for me. Like pulling out before their interview. That's the most sort of like Gen Z behavior I've experienced.
I say an emergency came up and you had to move your meeting, you know, it was like, I'm so sorry. I have to push this. And then being like, you don't respect my time. So I'm not going to come to the interview today. And it could have been like the interview person, like had to run to their kid's daycare because their kid had to like anything.
So I find there's like less, there's like a lack of empathy or maybe I don't know if that's.
Yeah.
Showing 121–140 of 163 · page 7 of 9
← Previous
Next →